Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Spaghetti Squash with Shitake mushroom and Chicken

I never cook spaghetti squash in my life. I never see it in Malaysia. However, I determine to eat variety of food and try new food. So, I bought it and kept it in the fridge. It had been in the fridge for 2 weeks. After checked the net, none of the recipe for Chinese style. Oop! I just had to improvise and modified a little bit. I was amazed. It was delicious. Here it is, I cooked it tonight.


1. 1 medium size spaghetti squarsh (cut into half put them on a baking pan. Fill the pan with 1/4 cup of water. Covered with foil and cook for 1 hr face down. Scoop and discard the seeds. Use a fork to get all the spaghetti squash out)
2. 2o pieces of dried shiitake mushroom (soak till tender, cut into thin strips) & 1/2 lb Chicken thin strips (marinate with 2T soy sauce, 1T corn starch, 1T cooking wine, 1t sugar, pepper, 2T water)
3. 3 cloves of minced garlic
4. 2T cooking oil
5. 1/2 cup of water
6. salt/soy sauce (optional)
How to cook it:
a. Heat #4 and brown #3
b. Add #2 and brown it in high heat till done
c. Add 1/4 cup of water, cook for 1 minute
d. Add #1, stir and mix with a fork
e. Add 1/2 of #5
f. check and add #6, if needed
g. Eat with rice or just eat them like eating spaghetti


1 comment:

st said...

Should be Spaghetti Squash. Oop! Typo error.